International Conference Colonial Cities in Global Perspective
Venue and date : Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018
Call for Papers
The Global History Network, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and the Institute of Advanced Study in Saint-Louis, seek papers for a conference on Colonial Cities in Global Perspective, to be held in Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018.
Labour and the Sea
The Centre for Port and Maritime History, at Liverpool, organizes its Annual Conference on Thursday 13th Sept. 2018. The topic is Labour and the Sea.
A Statue to Jules Durand
Les Amis de Jules Durand is an association dedicated to the memory of Jules DURAND, a social activist sentenced to death for what he was, the secretary of Le Havre’s Coal Porters’ Union, a CGT affiliate at a time when there was only one central labor federation in France. Durand was sentenced to capital punishment on November 25, 1910. At last, 100 years after the injustice, on 15 June a full-fledged public rehabilitation has been organized and his memory has been honoured as it should.
CALL FOR PAPERS
In the wake of the 2nd Congress of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) at Nanterre (2-4 November 2017), and with the 3rd ELHN conference (Amsterdam 2019) already in mind, the ELHN “Labour & Empire” working group is organising a one-day conference on Friday 2 November 2018 at Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University on the following topic:
“Thinking about labour within and across empires”
XVIII Jornadas de Historia del Trabajo/ XVIII Spanish Labour History Conference
September 6&7 2018
Labour History: where do we stand?
Faculty of Geography and History (University of Barcelona)
Co-organizers: TIG [Labour History Group&Spanish Labour History Network
Secretary: Daniel Muntané
danimuntane87@gmail.com
The European Journal of Life Writing has just published a special issue on the theme:
Life Writing "from Below" in Europe
The articles included in this special issue are:
Life Writing "from Below" in Europe: Introduction
T.G. Ashplant
Life Writing “from Below” in Europe: Authors, Archives, Avenues, Arenas
T.G. Ashplant
Workers of the World no. 9, May 2018
00 Table of Contents
01 Letter from the editor
02 Introduction
03 Informal economy…
04 China and Vietnam
05 Brazilian trade unionism
06 The trajectory of the Chilean
07 …crisis in French unionism
08 Trade union renewal …United Kingdom
09 Impact of the crisis…Spain
10 Swedish strikes and lockouts
11 Abstracts
